this is female privilege

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Hello, l am “TradutorBastardo” from Brazil! I run a blog about translations of articles about various things.

And I want to add a list of some legal woman-only privileges from Brazil:

Criminal Law Code (basically, a list of all punishable crimes), ammended by Federal Law 13.104: added circumstances for aggravating the punish of a woman murdered, but the same circumstances aren’t considered if the victim is a man.

Law 11.340: a VAWA-like law, it gives some providences for a woman battered in a familiar and marital context

Law 8.213: the rules for retirement and contribution for Social Security funds; men can retire 5 years later than women

Federal Law 5.948: harsher punishments for the crime of female trafficking

Work Law: 120 days of integrally paid maternal leave if pregnant

And then trying to force that victimhood onto others. Whenever another woman tries to tell me how awful my life is my skin crawls. 

I’m a male university student who goes to a college that is located in a rather unsafe city. Pretty much everyone has ignored my concern there about being assaulted or robbed. My therapist even said “You’re probably better of becsuse you’re a guy.”

Sometimes, I’m afraid of taking my daughter out to the park during the weekends, because I fear I’ll be mistaken for a child molester.

Dear followers, please block this probable virus.

That kind of attitude is pretty detrimental to women, as well as unfair to men. Dominate the conversation? You’re oppressing women. Don’t speak up enough? You’re too passive and need to “man up”.

Can’t win. 

I agree that there are problems with the current child support model and definitely agree that if a man doesn’t want to be a parent, he shouldn’t be forced to be a parent any more than a woman. However, it is difficult to regulate this in a way that is fair to everyone involved. 

I think a step in the right direction would be child support payments being paid in the form of government issued food, heath care or tuition vouchers that can be redeemed by service providers. I think child support being a cash payment to the primary care giver is absolutely ridiculous and gets abused all too often. 

As a teacher, I can say in many countries it’s illegal for any teacher (of any gender) to be alone in a room with a single student. However, in the school I am in now, I have heard rumors of people being suspicious of male staff alone with female students where as nothing of the sort is ever said about female staff with male students...